Our new mattress arrived today. The good news: the top surface is level, rather than worn into hollows and hills. It might have been a bit of hyperbole to say the center of the old mattress had a mountain range-like ridge between two valleys, but it was like a tiny flaw on a tooth that’s magnified by the tongue. The bad news: the new mattress is, of course, thicker than the old one, so our sheets didn’t fit. In spite of my vow to go nowhere near a retail establishment this Black Friday weekend, we had to go shopping for sheets with one-inch deeper corner pockets to make the bed. Nothing is ever easy, is it?
The old mattress. It’s not too bad to look at, but you can see the “valley” on the left and the hump in the middle.
The new mattress. The top surface is comfortably level.